I spoke to one of our graphics guys and he refered me to SPR 717784. This is a known problem with the "nView" applet from NVIDIA. The problem has been seen in nView versions 140.54 and 140.75. We have confirmed that nView version 140.62 did resolve the issue and we are opening a new case with NVIDIA concerning the fact that it seems to have reappeared in the .75 version.

The nView version on your machine can be located by starting the NVIDIA nView Desktop Manager from the control panel, then click on "About" to bring up the version info.

Other than changing the driver to the 140.62 version, one workaround is to uninstall nView or to simply disable it. Let us know if this does not resolve the problem.

I spoke to one of our graphics guys and he refered me to SPR 717784. This is a known problem with the "nView" applet from NVIDIA. The problem has been seen in nView versions 140.54 and 140.75. We have confirmed that nView version 140.62 did resolve the issue and we are opening a new case with NVIDIA concerning the fact that it seems to have reappeared in the .75 version.

The nView version on your machine can be located by starting the NVIDIA nView Desktop Manager from the control panel, then click on "About" to bring up the version info.

Other than changing the driver to the 140.62 version, one workaround is to uninstall nView or to simply disable it. Let us know if this does not resolve the problem.

Dell M6800 32Gb ram, NVIDIA Quadro K4100M, Current driver is 312.32. I have disabled nview and i can use the 3DSketch feature now. Thanks for the info but i think the testing tank at solidworks is failing a little on graphics card testing. I went to the effort of clean uninstall what the Dell guys did to get the driver on what SolidWorks suggest. We do rely alot on SolidWorks testing to be spot on.

Thanks for the pointer leading to the NVIDIA nView desktop manager causing the Solidworks frame to go transparent when selecting a 3D sketch. I have disabled the nView desktop manager and 3D sketch works without causing the Solidworks frame to go 50% transparent.